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Listening To Richard Brautigan

RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Listening To Richard Brautigan (A unique 1969 UK original hand assembled piece of proof artwork commissioned by Zapple Records & featuring what was to become the rear sleeve for the aborted album. This unique piece of artwork measures approximately 13" x 13", laid on a 15" x 20" stiff card backing & was designed by John Kosh. It features three pages including tracing paper overlays. It comes with excellent provenance in that it was obtained from anex-employee of Apple when the offices closed in the mid Seventies)
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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1969 - 55 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format artwork
Record Label Apple
Complete Stock List Go to Richard Brautigan
Product Catalogue No ARTWORK
Music Genre Apple label, Male Solo, 00s Artists, Writer / Novelist, Film & TV, Poetry
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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This unique piece of artwork was designed by the famous Apple designer John Kosh who was
responsible for many Beatles/Solo album sleeves such as Let It Be and The Wedding Album box
as well as other famous album sleeves by such artists as The Rolling Stones, The Eagles and
The Who.



THE DESIGN

The overall dimensions of the piece are 15" x 20" with the design itself being approximately
13" square.

The top/cover page is plain black paper with similar texture to the familiar black Apple
album inner sleeves.

The second page is plain tracing paper with annotations 'yellow' & 'black' referring to the
text & background colour of the top of the sleeve design.

The third page is like thick tracing paper with 'ZAP01' & 'LISTENING TO RICHARD BRAUTIGAN'
labels mounted for positional effect. This dates this design to a very early period as the
ZAP01 number was never actually used & this album was finally scheduled for release as
'ZAPPLE03' in late 1969.

The bottom is a thick white card, upon which is mounted the format for the sleeve design
with 'LISTENING TO RICHARD BRAUTIGAN' header text followed by brief sleeve notes. Under this
are two 6½" x 8" black & white photographs depicting Richard & his then girlfriend Valerie
Estes. Across the two photographs is hand written 'Position Only' in red chinagraph pencil.

Sadly for all of us, only two test acetates were ever made of the final album before Allen
Klein closed Zapple down, although it was finally issued on EMI Harvest in the US in 1970 -
Interestingly, using EXACTLY the same sleeve design as this, so they must have liked it!


This is a superb piece of Apple history - a one of a kind - for a project that was
eventually scrapped!




ARTWORK  
Recording Artist Richard Brautigan
Product Title Listening To Richard Brautigan
Product Information Richard Brautigan Listening To Richard Brautigan UK artwork.
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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